Ajay Panchal, MD
Surgery · Amherst, NYNPI 1053573444
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (45.9%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 58.7% of the total.
Across 58 payments — averaging $118.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Distalmotion US$1K
- Davol Inc.$88
- Smith+Nephew$51
- Boston Scientific$21
- plus $29 from 2 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $35,695 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$892K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,25018%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5007%
- Travel & lodging$3,15746%
- Food & beverage$1,97429%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 24 | $4,042 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 25 | $1,356 |
| Distalmotion US | 2 | $1,293 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $51 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$1,263
- DA VINCI SP$500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$378
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$127
- V-LOC 180$108
How this compares
$6,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 34 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Amherst
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.